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G272.5 Protection from witch by spitting.

J2469.1 A lentil in the soup.

D444.2 Transformation: meat to toad.

F531.1.3.3.1 One-legged giant.

D1766.1.2 Prayers of nun cause Virgin Mary to show her the infant Jesus.

D1821.3.5 Magic sight by looking through ring.

K331.4 Mouse's tail in mouth of sleeping owner causes him to cough up magic object.

H1235 Succession of helpers on quest.

A1131.4 Rain from container in sky.

H583.4 King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She does for another what the latter cannot do for her.

J2172.2.2 Wolf locked up with the sheep.

G249.9 Witches vanish from prison.

F147.2 Hermit's hut at border of otherworld.

E612.2 Reincarnation as wolf.

F421.1 Lady of the Lake.

E423.1.8.1 Revenant as calf.

D1012.1.1 Magic legs of bull.

G241.1.6 Witch rides on cattle.

E489.11 Inhabitants of land of dead have great thirst.

J622.1 Wise man destroys serpent's eggs.

D2106.1.2 Animals miraculously multiplied.

F460.4.4.2 Mountain-men chain captive peasant.

F378.3 Mortal visiting in fairyland must keep his thought on the fairies.

D861.0.1 Magic object stolen from local deity.

J1024 Quails caught in net rise up in a body with net and escape.

G303.3.1 The devil in human form.

H647.1 What is most beloved? Life.

A1015.2 Spirit causes deluge.

F165.3.1.1 Chamber with crystal ceiling in otherworld.

B41.1 Pegasus.

H1573 Religious tests.

D395 Transformation: frog to person.

A2471.6.1 Why dog looks back at person who has beaten him.

A2721.6 Why the mogli flower and the lime are cursed by gods.

A1335.14 Death comes into the world by treachery of the gods: stick used by man for scratching his back is changed into cobra.

D1470.1.13 Magic wishing-hat.

A2233.3 Owl as watchman goes to sleep: does not see by day.

E434.2 Hiding from ghosts in pulpit.

H71 Marks of royalty.

F660.2.1 Follower of a saint is miraculously made a famous preacher.

E445 Ghost laid by barring off.

H1386 Quest for lost object.

D418.2.1 Transformation: worm to serpent.

B15.2 Many-mouthed animal.

D978 Magic herbs.

J1261.1.1 God as a father- in-law.

F406.4 Demon of gluttony coaxed from man's throat with bits of food.

D1500.2 Magic object wards off disease.

E121.4 Resuscitation by saint.

H1388 Quest: answer to certain question.